This was the longest block I’d written at once. 1,436 words. It makes sense. I’ve seen this scene pretty much from a few days of starting this project, so I had a good idea of how it was going to go. Although one part of it surprised me as I wrote it. That’s what I […]
Got some writing done early this morning. Just hit over 22k and only a stone’s throw away from 23k. But I feel as though I’m short some words. I was hoping the major reveal coming would hit around 25k, but I may end up about 1,000 words shy. Which, in the grand scheme of things, […]
A little late on my update today. But I spent the better part of the morning mulling over my story and where it was headed. I know the midpoint, but still needed more words before getting there. I was hoping that the big reveal would hit right at word 25,000, but I still have 3,600 […]
Yes! I hit the next milestone! 40% done, and almost to the halfway mark. I have an idea of what will happen at 25k, it’s just the intervening words that I will have to figure out and soon. At least I finally figured out what would happen in the park. Do I like it? I’m […]
So, what do you do when you have no idea what happens next? Write a different scene! I’m trying to have enough story for the 25k because that’s where things will change. I have ideas for that part of the story, but really no idea how to tie in the end of the first half […]
Another 1,042 words drained out of me. But at least the story is still moving forward. I need to give myself a bit more freedom to write terribly, because I think I’m still holding back, trying to make this good on the first try. But I just need to keep writing forward, writing terribly, and […]
Last night and this morning, it finally hit. I did not want to write. And getting 1,000 words today felt like a slog through molasses. I’m starting to doubt the story, and it’s funny. I knew this would happen. I prepared myself for it. And yet, when it hit, it hit with full force. But […]
Haven’t missed a day yet, and managed to add another thousand words or so this morning. I’ve been taking the Fast Drafting course at the Writing Mastery Academy and Jessica Brody said something in the lecture I watched yesterday that made me think. She said most novels don’t get written because people are trying to […]
I made a mistake when I stopped writing earlier. Well, not so much a mistake as a misstep. I’d been trying hard to end each writing session in the middle of a scene, so that I could jump back in when I got back to it. But this time, I didn’t. I finished a scene […]
1,217 word so far today, taking me just over 14.5K. I plan on doing another session later, if only to bring myself over 15k, which was my hope for the weekend. This is the beginning of Week 2, where things might start to fall apart. The plot starts fizzling out, characters start being stubborn, and […]